Cameroon Urban Slum and Housing Affordability Indicators

Cameroon data on the proportion and total number of urban residents living in slums or informal settlements, based on four UN-Habitat shelter deprivation indicators. The dataset also includes the proportion of urban population living in housing that costs more than 30% of their monthly income. It was published by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Estimate the scale of informal urbanization based on UN-Habitat's deprivation indicators.
• Analyze housing cost burdens by identifying populations spending over 30% of income on housing.
• Compare slum prevalence across different regions or territories within Cameroon.
• Support policy evaluation for urban development and housing programs.

Strengths

• Based on a standardized UN-Habitat methodology using four key shelter deprivation indicators.
• Includes two distinct metrics: slum population proportion and housing cost overburden proportion.
• Data is provided at multiple geographic levels: country, territory, and region.

Limitations

• Excludes the 'security of tenure' deprivation indicator due to stated data limitations.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Data and Analytics Section

Collection Method

Calculated based on household shelter deprivations and expenditure data, following UN-Habitat definitions.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 22:56:58.885334; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Cameroon, with breakdowns by territory and region.